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Douglas Coe (center), founder and director of the Bull and Bear Investment Camp, poses with his campers (some of whom are throwing trading cards in the air) on the floor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Board of Trade. Mr. Coe’s parents taught him, ‘Be a person ... who reaches back and lifts others up,’ he says. (Susan Pfannmuller/Special to The Christian Science Monitor)
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